Den 2011-02-19 23:39:04 skrev François Patte
<francois.patte@...>:
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> Bonjour,
>
> Where can I write metadatas when I create an audio CD?
>
> I recorded songs from a tape recorder using audacity.
>
> I split the track into several tracks using Ctrl-b and I wrote the title
> for every song
>
> I saved the project
>
> I exported it using export multiple function
>
> I got as many .wav files as separated tracks
>
> I used K3B to burn an audio CD writing the title of the CD and the name
> of the artist and for every song the tittle
>
>
> But, in spite of all this hard work, when I read the CD: no title, no
> author name and song titles appear anywhere. I just get on my computer:
> "audio CD" and in a CD drive, "track 1", "track 2",....
>
> I have no idea of what I can do else!
>
> Thanks for helping.
>
> F.P.
>
> I use:
>
> Linux fedora 10
>
> Audacity 1.3.7
>
> K3B 1.0.5
I have never used K3B, but I guess there should be an option somewhere
called something like ”CD text”.
--
Kind regards
Johnny Rosenberg

On 19 Feb 2011 at 23:39, François Patte wrote:
> Where can I write metadatas when I create an audio CD?
You're referring to "CD-TEXT." Your CD burning program must support it
in order for the information to be stored on the disk, and your CD
player must support it to read the information from the disk. Not many
players do.
A quick check makes it look like K3B will write CD-TEXT to an audio
disk. I can't tell from your message what program you're playing your
audio CD with, but I'll guess that that's where the failure is. In any
case, it's not an Audacity issue.
Here's an essay about CD-TEXT:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-Text

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Bonjour,
Where can I write metadatas when I create an audio CD?
I recorded songs from a tape recorder using audacity.
I split the track into several tracks using Ctrl-b and I wrote the title
for every song
I saved the project
I exported it using export multiple function
I got as many .wav files as separated tracks
I used K3B to burn an audio CD writing the title of the CD and the name
of the artist and for every song the tittle
But, in spite of all this hard work, when I read the CD: no title, no
author name and song titles appear anywhere. I just get on my computer:
"audio CD" and in a CD drive, "track 1", "track 2",....
I have no idea of what I can do else!
Thanks for helping.
F.P.
I use:
Linux fedora 10
Audacity 1.3.7
K3B 1.0.5
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Den 2011-02-19 18:19:27 skrev jacot <jacquessavard@...>:
> I have a tape about 30 y ago record in the red zone too much sound
> or microphone toonear
>
> nothing to do now it is the first sound of a big opera singner now
> she love to have the record on mp3
> but
> how to correct or remouve the bad sound or overshoot sound
>
> do we have a kind of filter for that
> or
> a kind of AGC automatic gain control
>
> jack 47'N 71'W
If you are talking about distortion of some kind, it's really too late to
do anything useful about it if it is already recorded. Just try to not
make it worse…
In my Audacity installation there is an effect called ”Clip fix…” by
Benjamin Schwartz. I haven't tried it myself and maybe it's not very good,
but it won't hurt to try, if you didn't already…
Here are some words about it from Benjamin himself:
http://bemasc.net/wordpress/2010/10/26/clipfix/
No matter how good it is, don't expect magic. There is actually no way to
exactly restore a clipped signal, but there might be some algorithms that
are better than nothing…
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Johnny Rosenberg

I have a tape about 30 y ago record in the red zone too much sound or microphone toonear
nothing to do now it is the first sound of a big opera singner now
she love to have the record on mp3
but
how to correct or remouve the bad sound or overshoot sound
do we have a kind of filter for that
or
a kind of AGC automatic gain control
jack 47'N 71'W

Steve!
I certainly want to hear the opinion of experts, e.g. Audacity developers
(when they have time for this).
There are several problems to discuss:
1. "high quality" recording with Audacity
2. "high quality" recording with ALSA
3. "high quality" recording with OSS4
If you want to make me silent, you may study the manual:
http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-to-be-linux-user.html
Best regards,
Igor

Yes the developers are very busy at the moment working toward the
release of Audacity 2.0, however they have been asked about this
previously. Here is the relevant extract from the reply:
<<<I just had a thorough look through pa_win_ds.c and pa_win_wmme.c,
the PortAudio v19 implementation of the DirectSound and WMME.
It seems to me that (despite what people may say on the forums), the
current Portaudio v19 version in CVS does NEVER record in more the
16-bit on Windows. This can easily be seen when you search for
"PaUtil_SelectClosestAvailableFormat" in these files. This function
takes the sample format requested and returns the "nearest" one
supported natively. However, for both DS and WMME, the only "native"
sample rate ever given to this function is - guess what - paInt16!!
Portaudio does not even TRY to check if a higher one is available.
For example, take this quote from the pa_win_ds.c file:
/* IMPLEMENT ME - establish which host formats are available */
PaSampleFormat nativeInputFormats = paInt16;
//PaSampleFormat nativeFormats = paUInt8 | paInt16 | paInt24 | paInt32 |
paFloat32; >>>
and a relevant extract from one of the Portaudio developers on the subject:
<<<the approach to API design we have taken with PortAudio is to
provide an API which can be implemented on all supported platforms.
That way the API behaves consistently on all platforms. Things like
this which are available on one platform but not others are
implemented as host-api-specific extensions (we can always merge them
into the core later if they become widely available).
To the best of my knowledge it is very difficult to query a WMME or
DirectSound device for its supported formats because the Kernel Mixer
will tell you it can support everything (!). You can do it at the WDM
level, and I have already done this for channel count information but
it is quite a lot of work and some devices have quite complex
bandwidth constraints (eg 24 bit if you do stereo, but only 16 bit if
you do surround, etc). Because of this situation I generally use ASIO
for "serious" audio applications on windows. >>>
To complicate the issue, several very common sound cards have bugs in
their WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE support. There is more information about
this in the Portaudio mailing list here:
http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/portaudio/2008-February/008237.html
If you have 24-bit hardware and you wish to try enabling greater than
16-bit support you need to look in pa_win_ds.c and uncomment the
lines:
nativeFormats = paUInt8 | paInt16 | paInt24 | paInt32 | paFloat32;
This will make use of DS converters rather than using PortAudio
converters to map to the best supported sample format, but you could
run into problems if the requested format fails, so you may need some
mechanism to negotiate a fall-back to 16-bit.
As this is a Portaudio issue, if you wish to pursue this further then
the best people to speak to would be the Portaudio developers.
http://www.portaudio.com/
Steve
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 3:35 PM, igorche [via Audacity]
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> I hope that Gale may ask Audacity developers to explain the problem.
> Although, of course, they might also be busy with more urgent work.
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To recap, the original question was:
<<<Someone in another forum recently made this statement about Audacity:
"[Audacity] has a very serious flaw that keeps me from using it for
recording (24bits/96kHz). It will not record anything other than 16
bits on a Windows machine. It will look like it does. All the settings
seem to indicate that it is recording at 24 bits, but a close
examination of the data shows that it is really recording at 16 bits
and padding zeros to fill in the low order bits to make it 24 bits
deep. This is not a problem for other (non-Windows) platforms, but that
doesn't help me."
Is this true? Where can I find more information about this? Is this
just an issue with recording at 24 bits, or for everything other than
16 bits? I don't recall this being mentioned here since I joined the
list several months ago.
My concern is that I've been using Audacity to record 32-bit WAV files,
and now I'm wondering if I've been getting what I think I've been
getting. >>>
The answer,in brief, is that on Windows, recording is limited to 16
bit due to a limitation in PortAudio. This does not affect import,
processing or export in Audacity which by default use 32-bit float.
The limitation is unlikely to be a serious issue for the vast majority
of users provided that if they are recording they ensure that they do
so with a reasonable recording level. Aiming for peaks to be around
half the track height (-6 dB) is a good ball-park figure. In cases
where full 24-bit recording is an important issue, the workaround is
to record using an application that uses ASIO drivers. The recording
can then be imported into Audacity in 32-bit (float) format (default)
for editing and processing.
Even though recording on Windows is limited to 16-bit, it is still
recommended to have the default recording quality set to 32-bit
(float) as all processing is done at 32-bit (float) and having the
audio track data at 32-bit (float) avoids the need for resampling when
processing tracks. This is why the default recording quality in
Audacity is 32-bit (float).
Steve
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 2:30 PM, igorche [via Audacity]
<ml-node+6043321-1486705649-53450@...> wrote:
> Stevethefiddle: "However, this is going well off topic and continuing this
> pointless discussion is paramount to "Trolling""
> Is it an attempt to avoid the answer to the question?
> I could ask my Russian friends to study the source code, but the problem is
> that they have a lot of other things to do. The OSS4 gurus also seem to be
> busy now with more urgent problems.
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Stevethefiddle: "However, this is going well off topic and continuing this
pointless discussion is paramount to "Trolling""
Is it an attempt to avoid the answer to the question?
I could ask my Russian friends to study the source code, but the problem is
that they have a lot of other things to do. The OSS4 gurus also seem to be
busy now with more urgent problems.

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 07:40:43AM -0600, Reid Zak wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 5:18 AM, Johnny Rosenberg
> <[1]gurus.knugum@...> wrote:
>
> Hard to say, but I am sure someone else know. I wouldn't guess there
> would
> be any problems as long as you only record two channels simultaneously.
>
> Actually I digitalized my old 4 channel reel-reel tapes many years ago,
> but I didn't use a PC for it, but rather a *digital porta studio* (first
> a
> Roland VS-880VX, later a Roland VS-2480 * the latter contains 16 24-bit
> A/D converters). The result was pretty good, actually. After doing that
> I
> sold my 4 channel reel-reel recorder (a TEAC A-3440 * I actually miss it
> a
> bit*)
>
> I have used my ASUS Eee PC 900a to make recordings using Audicity before,
> and I'd note two things:
> If it's plugged in to power or ethernet, I'll get ground noise (60Hz buzz)
> in the recording, but that may vary. Do some tests on that.
> If you have Caching in Ram turned on (I think), it can take a long time to
> save the recording you just made back to disk.
> Other than that, it seems to record fine! (I was using the Realtek Audio
> built in sound card)
> Reid
>
Thanks, that's good to know, I guess the Acer Aspire should manage then
if I decide to do it that way.
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On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 12:18:58PM +0100, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> Den 2011-02-19 11:39:48 skrev Chris G <cl@...>:
>
[snip long questions and answers]
Thanks for that very straightforward and helpful reply. That's a good
point about, if possible, digitising the sound away from the noisy
(electrical) environment of the PC. I'll think about how that might be
possible.
--
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To clear up any fear, uncertainty and doubt about Audacity, the
"Truth" about Audacity is in plain daylight for all to see:
http://code.google.com/p/audacity/source/checkout as laid out by its
license terms http://audacity.sourceforge.net/about/license
This is in contrast to OSS4 which is partly closed source:
http://www.opensound.com/download.cgi
Unfortunately 4Front Technologies do not seem to publish the license
details for the non-GPL components of OSS4 on their web-site other
than to describe it as "a Commercial License" and "These packages
contain drivers which are not licensed under the various Open Source
license"
However, this is going well off topic and continuing this pointless
discussion is paramount to "Trolling"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_%28Internet%29
The original question has been answered several posts previously, so I
respectfully suggest to everyone, DFTT.
Steve
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 12:10 PM, igorche [via Audacity]
<ml-node+6043068-1258600660-53450@...> wrote:
> Johnny: "Maybe they should read the source code…?"
> My German friends may not do this.
> I could ask Russian hackers and OSS4 gurus on OSS4 forum.
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>
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On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 5:18 AM, Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum@...>wrote:
> Den 2011-02-19 11:39:48 skrev Chris G <cl@...>:
>
> > I used (well, played with really) Audacity a few years ago, I think it
> > was around the "not quite version 1" days and then other things
> > intervened and the various things I wanted to do got forgotten about.
> >
> > I'm now semi-retired and have more time on my hands so I'm back to
> > trying to get some useful things done with Audacity.
> >
> > Among other things I want to transfer various old recordings from tape
> > (as in both reel-reel and cassette) and probably vinyl to digital. I've
> > [re]read all the documentation and tutorials on the Wiki about this and
> > these have told me most of what I need to know, but I still have a
> > couple of questions:-
> >
> > Is there much/any advantage to be gained by using a battery powered
> > laptop or netbook for the initial recording to reduce any chance of
> > mains hum or other mains borne noises? (I may even have a battery
> > powered phono amp as well)
>
> As I see it, the best would be to use an external sound card connected to
> your computer via USB. That way, you keep the hostile electrical
> environment in your computer away from the critical analogue parts of the
> whole thing and inside your PC you will then work completely in the
> digital domain.
>
> If you use an analogue input of your computer (use LINE, not MIC), I think
> the graphics card could be more of a problem than the main power stuff
> (sorry, couldn't figure out the correct English word for it, you can tell
> me if you like…). If you use a desktop computer, you could improve the
> results by making sure that the distance between your sound card and
> graphics card is as great (big? large?) as possible. You can't do that
> with a laptop…
>
> But again, the best solution is to keep in the digital domain inside your
> computer and keep the analogue things way outside, far away.
>
> >
> > Will a Netbook (Acer Aspire, Linux 10.04, Audacity 1.3.12) have
> > enough processor power to do the initial recording at least without
> > any issues? The Acer has a Intel Atom Z520 processor and 1Gb of
> > memory. (I will transfer files to my desktop machine to do noise
> > reduction, click removal, etc.)
> >
>
> Hard to say, but I am sure someone else know. I wouldn't guess there would
> be any problems as long as you only record two channels simultaneously.
>
> Actually I digitalized my old 4 channel reel-reel tapes many years ago,
> but I didn't use a PC for it, but rather a ”digital porta studio” (first a
> Roland VS-880VX, later a Roland VS-2480 – the latter contains 16 24-bit
> A/D converters). The result was pretty good, actually. After doing that I
> sold my 4 channel reel-reel recorder (a TEAC A-3440 – I actually miss it a
> bit…)
>
> --
> Kind regards
Hello,
I have used my ASUS Eee PC 900a to make recordings using Audicity before,
and I'd note two things:
If it's plugged in to power or ethernet, I'll get ground noise (60Hz buzz)
in the recording, but that may vary. Do some tests on that.
If you have Caching in Ram turned on (I think), it can take a long time to
save the recording you just made back to disk.
Other than that, it seems to record fine! (I was using the Realtek Audio
built in sound card)
Reid

Den 2011-02-19 11:39:48 skrev Chris G <cl@...>:
> I used (well, played with really) Audacity a few years ago, I think it
> was around the "not quite version 1" days and then other things
> intervened and the various things I wanted to do got forgotten about.
>
> I'm now semi-retired and have more time on my hands so I'm back to
> trying to get some useful things done with Audacity.
>
> Among other things I want to transfer various old recordings from tape
> (as in both reel-reel and cassette) and probably vinyl to digital. I've
> [re]read all the documentation and tutorials on the Wiki about this and
> these have told me most of what I need to know, but I still have a
> couple of questions:-
>
> Is there much/any advantage to be gained by using a battery powered
> laptop or netbook for the initial recording to reduce any chance of
> mains hum or other mains borne noises? (I may even have a battery
> powered phono amp as well)
As I see it, the best would be to use an external sound card connected to
your computer via USB. That way, you keep the hostile electrical
environment in your computer away from the critical analogue parts of the
whole thing and inside your PC you will then work completely in the
digital domain.
If you use an analogue input of your computer (use LINE, not MIC), I think
the graphics card could be more of a problem than the main power stuff
(sorry, couldn't figure out the correct English word for it, you can tell
me if you like…). If you use a desktop computer, you could improve the
results by making sure that the distance between your sound card and
graphics card is as great (big? large?) as possible. You can't do that
with a laptop…
But again, the best solution is to keep in the digital domain inside your
computer and keep the analogue things way outside, far away.
>
> Will a Netbook (Acer Aspire, Linux 10.04, Audacity 1.3.12) have
> enough processor power to do the initial recording at least without
> any issues? The Acer has a Intel Atom Z520 processor and 1Gb of
> memory. (I will transfer files to my desktop machine to do noise
> reduction, click removal, etc.)
>
Hard to say, but I am sure someone else know. I wouldn't guess there would
be any problems as long as you only record two channels simultaneously.
Actually I digitalized my old 4 channel reel-reel tapes many years ago,
but I didn't use a PC for it, but rather a ”digital porta studio” (first a
Roland VS-880VX, later a Roland VS-2480 – the latter contains 16 24-bit
A/D converters). The result was pretty good, actually. After doing that I
sold my 4 channel reel-reel recorder (a TEAC A-3440 – I actually miss it a
bit…)
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Den 2011-02-19 11:28:02 skrev Igor Chernenko <igor.chernenko@...>:
> Steve wrote: "Do you have a Linux computer with a 24-bit sound card
> installed?... If you don't then it's irrelevant. "
>
> Is it an attempt to change the topic of the discussion?
> If Audacity (Windows version) does not support HD recording, it may
> explain
> the failure of my German friends to record podcasts.
> My Russian friends may also want to know "the truth about Auducity", and
> many OSS4 users too.
Maybe they should read the source code…?
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Den 2011-02-19 05:25:03 skrev Stevethefiddle <stevethefiddle@...>:
>
> Do you have a Linux computer with a 24-bit sound card installed?
> If you do then you could check it out for yourself and I'm sure that
> others would find your results useful.
> If you don't then it's irrelevant.
> I don't, so for me it's irrelevant.
>
> Steve
Hopefully he will post the result in a new thread rather than in this one…
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Den 2011-02-19 00:59:07 skrev Igor Chernenko <igor.chernenko@...>:
> Johnny wrote: "You can't really write anything without eventually
> mentioning
> OSS4, can you?"
>
> Hi Johnny!
>
> In this particular case, it was just an attempt to add a dose of
> "optimism
> and hope" to the message.
> I do not know whether "arecord" with ALSA is reliable, or not.
> My Russian friends told me that HD playback with ALSA is problematic.
>
> If you hate OSS4, and love ALSA, you may better study the source code of
> ALSA and enlighten us.
Exactly where did I mention anything about what I love vs hate? Well, I
love my wife, but that's way off topic to say the least…
I don't hate nor love OSS nor ALSA, my point was, like I saw someone else
point out too, that there was no reason to even mention OSS in this case.
Of course there was no reason to mention ALSA either, but since you didn't
I couldn't complain about it, could I?
Seriously I don't care about what's better, OSS or ALSA or something else.
I use ALSA for no reason at all, but I had no problems with it, so I had
no reason to fix anything. It works great for me and if it does not for
you, please use whatever you like, nobody cares, I can promise you that,
just like nobody cares what I use.
Sorry for bad English (I just realised that I completely forgot how to use
”or – nor – either – neither”, so I guess there was some kind of mix in
this post, sorry for that if it creates some kind of confusion…).
>
> Kind regards,
> Igor
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I used (well, played with really) Audacity a few years ago, I think it
was around the "not quite version 1" days and then other things
intervened and the various things I wanted to do got forgotten about.
I'm now semi-retired and have more time on my hands so I'm back to
trying to get some useful things done with Audacity.
Among other things I want to transfer various old recordings from tape
(as in both reel-reel and cassette) and probably vinyl to digital. I've
[re]read all the documentation and tutorials on the Wiki about this and
these have told me most of what I need to know, but I still have a
couple of questions:-
Is there much/any advantage to be gained by using a battery powered
laptop or netbook for the initial recording to reduce any chance of
mains hum or other mains borne noises? (I may even have a battery
powered phono amp as well)
Will a Netbook (Acer Aspire, Linux 10.04, Audacity 1.3.12) have
enough processor power to do the initial recording at least without
any issues? The Acer has a Intel Atom Z520 processor and 1Gb of
memory. (I will transfer files to my desktop machine to do noise
reduction, click removal, etc.)
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Steve wrote: "Do you have a Linux computer with a 24-bit sound card
installed?... If you don't then it's irrelevant. "
Is it an attempt to change the topic of the discussion?
If Audacity (Windows version) does not support HD recording, it may explain
the failure of my German friends to record podcasts.
My Russian friends may also want to know "the truth about Auducity", and
many OSS4 users too.

Do you have a Linux computer with a 24-bit sound card installed?
If you do then you could check it out for yourself and I'm sure that
others would find your results useful.
If you don't then it's irrelevant.
I don't, so for me it's irrelevant.
Steve
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> Stevethefiddle wrote: "There have been credible reports that Linux is not
> affected by the issue".
> It is possible to find those reports?
> It is a purely pragmatic question.
> The absence of a credible information may cause confusion.
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Stevethefiddle wrote: "There have been credible reports that Linux is not
affected by the issue".
It is possible to find those reports?
It is a purely pragmatic question.
The absence of a credible information may cause confusion.

I mean that it is know to affect Windows, but I do not know for
certain whether it affects other platforms or not.
There have been credible reports that Linux is not affected by the
issue, but as I do not have 24-bit hardware attached to my Linux
computer I have not been able to test these claims personally. I have
not investigated the issue regarding Mac computers as I don't use them
so the issue has no relevance for me.
As the original question was regarding Microsoft Windows, this issue
clearly has nothing whatsoever to do with OSS4 and I find it a big
turn off to be bombarded with petty arguments about "my audio
subsystem's better than your audio subsystem" every time I visit this
mailing list. You've been banging on about this for years and no-one
is interested.
Regards
Steve
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 8:07 PM, igorche [via Audacity]
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> Stevethefiddle wrote: "and possibly only affects Windows".
> What does the word "possibly" mean (in this context)?
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